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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,041, dated March 1l, 1884.

Application filed August 20, 1853. (No model.) v

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Bc it known that I, Istmo NEWMAN, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and Stute Aof Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby decla-re the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of ret`- erence marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description' of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, iii- Figure l, a side view of a hip-section of a corset withiny improvement applied; Fig. 2, a transverse lsection through one of the pockets enlarged; Fig. 3, a side view of the stay detached; Fig. 4, a transverse section of the saine enlarged.

This invention relates to an improvement in corsets, the i object being to apply a re-enforcing stay at those points where the stays are liable to break, or the corset requires an increased strength of stay, and so that this increase may at any time be applied or removed, the invention being specially ap plicablc to the side section of a corset-that is, the portion extending from under the arms down over the hip and between the front and rear sections,l

for the reason that at this part of the corset there is a shorter bend, a greater strain is brought upon the stays, and there is the most liability to break; and the invention consists in an overlying pocket arranged at the upper part ofthe section, and a like pocket below, leaving a'n open space between the two pockets, combined with a stayed strip, which may be inserted int-o one pocket, and then its other end into the other pocket, and so as to lic upon the surface of the stayed section ci' the corset, and thereby strengthen that section, as more fully hereinafter described.

In the illustration of my invention I show it as applied to a hip-section.

A represents the front section; B, the rear section, the space between the two being the usual hipsecticn, C, the said section C having the usual stays and constructed in the usual or any ci the known methods of making corsets. Upon one side of this section, and extending from the upper end downward, I make a pocket, D. This pocket extends down to nea-r the waistline. At the lower end of the' section I make a similar pocket, E, which extends from the lower end upward to near the waist-line, but the two pockets terminating so i as to leave a suitable space between their ad- 5 jacent ends. These pockets are best made by applying one or more thicknesses of fabric, a, corresponding in extent to that part of the hip-section over which they lie, and so as to be inclosed in the seam at the edges of the section. Then lines of stitches b are run vertically at each side, as shown, to detne the pocket. I make the si ay F in width corresponding, substantially, to this pocket, and this width should be about the width of the section atthe waistline. This stay I preferably make from two thicknesses of fabric, d' d, stitched together, as shown, to form longitudinal pockets, into which pockets bones c are introduced. This stay is in length substantially corresponding to the depth of the pockets and the space between them. The stay is inserted iirst one end into one pocket and then bent so as to pass the other end into the other pocket, its own elasticity bringing it flat upon the surface of 7 the corset, as shown, this auxiliary stay overlying t-he stays in the section, which it will be understood are to be introduced in the usual manner, and, as shown in Fig. 2, strengthens the corset at that part and affords a greater support to the person, yet yields readily, because the auxiliary stay is permitted to work in the pockets as the wearer bends the body, and this working or play in the pockets prevents the bones in the stay E from breaking.

By the term bones4 I wish to be understood as including any of the various materials employed as substitutes therefor.

The stay thus introduced may at anytime be removed should it be too strong for the wearer, or it may be renewed if perchance the bones therein should be broken.

I am aware that busks or broad stays have been made by stitching strips of material to' form longitudinal pockets for the introduction of bones therein; and I am also aware that pockets have been made in garments with their adjacent ends open, through which opening bones are introduced. I therefore do not wish to be understood as claiming,broadl y, this we-ll- 1 known construction.

I claim- A. corset having upon the surface of the stayed section a pocket, D, at the upper part,

and 2t pocket, E, at the lower part, the said I the other pocket, the stay thus introduced 1o two pockets extending toward eeeh other, their overlying the stayed section, substantially as. adjacent ends open but distant from each other, described, and so as to serve as an auxiliary S0 as to leave a space between Said open ends, support to the stays of the section.

Combined with an nuxilia'ryhone, d, stay F,

| T .T corresponding in width to the said pockets, ISAAC BEVMAB the said space between the pockets permitting l fitnessesz the introduction of said stay F first one end JOHN E. EARLE, into one pocket, and then the other end into Jos. G. EARLE. 

